On May 31, 1937, ten people lost their lives. The Memorial day Massacre was one of the most brutal massacres ever in the United States of America. But, it was an important part of the Great Depression. What happened was that Chicago union protesters were protesting about Republic Steel’s Chicago plant turning union. But the steel mill was ready for the protesters. Republic Steel’s Chicago plant hired police. The company-hired police blocked the pickets. Once the pickets arrived, they were surprised
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The film fades into the museum with a different date on the sign, it has been ten years later. There are two young men are packing up to go back home because they could not find anything in Egypt. One of the men is Frank Whemple the son of the Dr. Whemple from the previous scene. As they are packing up a man comes to visit and tells them where to dig in order to find a mummy. It is clear that this mystery man is the mummy, Imhotep, that walked off ten years before. He was right where to dig because
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Television show called Monty Python’s Flying Circus is a series of about 30 minutes long short films. The first episodes arrived in 1969 when five British comedians, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Michael Palin with the assistance of Terry Gilliam, the American animator, decided to create an unordinary show. It was broadcasted on the BBC between 1969 and 1974, consisted of 45 episodes, categorized into 4 seasons. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python) Monty Python’s
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President Clinton himself came under fire for alleged sexual harassment. Paula Jones was a state employee when Clinton was Governor of Arkansas. In 1991, she claimed that Clinton exposed himself and asked her for oral sex in a hotel room. Clinton denied all allegations. After several rounds of filing, Jones's lawsuit was dismissed for failing to state a claim. During the appeals process, a settlement was reached. Jones dropped her suit against Clinton in exchange for $850,000. However, she never received
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SHUAI MA BUS 551-001 - Spring 2013: Legal & Ethical Environment Professor Victor G. Petrigliano 2/18/13 Week 3 In my opinion, the Cola company has an ethical problem but not guilty. Here are some reasons for this statement. For the aspect of ethical, the problem is that no matter the company should be blame or not, the fact is Cola company’s products contain unacceptably high levels of pesticide residues. There may be some reasons for this, such as the company could not examine the pesticide
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becomes second nature. Isolation, and un-acceptance of the cult’s beliefs by the larger community makes leaving very difficult. There have been several great cults around the world, with effective leaders, including Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Reverend Jim Jones, and
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Huynh Thieu Dinh (Felix) Eng4U Mr. Burton October 31th, 2013 Hamlet Act 1 Scene 5: Pirate of the Caribbean Curse of the Black Pearl Hamlet is a story take place around the 14th to 15th century in the land of Denmark. The ghost scene from act 1 scene 5 is a crucial scene since it is the beginning of Hamlet’s plot for revenge. It is also one of Shakespeare “signature” scenes because most of his plays always include a supernatural figure manipulates and affects the plot. Then how could anything
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A power- abusing “religious” leader is Reverend Jim Jones, born 1931 in Crete, Indiana a rural community (Wikipedia). Jones was a voracious reader as a child studying Joseph Statin, Karl Marx, Mahatma Gandhi and Adlof Hitler (Reiterman, Tim and John Jacobs).He studied each carefully, noting their strengths and weaknesses. In psychological term this is referring to as behaviorism According to his childhood acquaintances, they recalled Jones as being a “really weird kid” who was “obsessed with religion…
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strives to make others believe as they do so they will join. There are somewhere around 3,000 to 5,000 of these cults throughout the United States, but only 75 to 100 are documented (Study Resources). The most commonly known cults are Reverend Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, Heavens Gate, and Charles Manson and the Family; these cults were able to drag people in and make them willing to do horrible things to themselves and others. In the early 20th century, Allistar Crowly, AKA “The Black Pope”
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The Peoples Temple Jim jones had skills to be a preacher. As a boy Jones would explore every church in his hometown, and involving himself in each ritual before he moving on to the next church. He would stand before anyone and start to preach with doing that he became a shock to others. After high school Jim had an interest in medicine, he took an up a position of working as a hospital orderly. Were he soon met his wife who stood by his side of Jim Jones attending the Methodist Church soon
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